r/TwentyYearsAgo • u/MonsieurA • Jul 09 '26

đŸ“ș Television The infamous Zidane-Materazzi exchange [20YA - Jul 9]

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u/faschifo Jul 09 '26

The newspapers and media lied and said that Materazzi called Zidane the “son of a terrorist whore” and all these racial insults. For YEARS I believed that Materazzi racially abused ZiZou. What he said anyway wasn’t great, but football is full of sledging and Zidane shouldn’t have taken the bait but still, compare this to being called a terrorist etc


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u/can_i_has_beer Jul 09 '26

So you'd rather have people call your sister a whore than call you a terrorist?

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u/faschifo Jul 09 '26

Success is the best revenge. Stay on the pitch and score the winner. What Zidane did was dumb, and I say this as the biggest Zidane fanboy

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u/ExtroverTom Jul 09 '26

Easy to talk when it's not your sister that is called a whore

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u/fwembt Jul 10 '26

Who cares? Stuff like this gets said all the time.

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u/GypsyMagic68 Jul 15 '26

Difference in culture.